I’ll go nuts and get myself hospitalized in a psych ward

Book a private jet to go to California with my family. I’ve always really liked the idea of California and I also have a really good friend that lives there! 😃

Two chicks at the same time, man…

• Do a food tour of Vietnam
• Experience more of South East Asia
• Volunteer my time at the City Mission
• Get more sleep
• Workout more
• Spend more time with the girlfriend
• Spend more time with Family
• Work on some personal Web Projects

Not in any particular order.

Develop my current podcast further, as well as work on at least 1 or 2 other podcast ideas I have. So many great ideas, so little time.

Sleep.

Then all the projects!!!

I’d probably start designing and building a rolling ball clock/ sculpture, then hit some sort of obstacle and switch to making a self recirculating eddy current tube, get frustrated and try to design and build an electronically commutated counter rotating propeller driver, get frustrated and try to build a garage sized 3d printer, get frustrated and try to build a delayed action door closer get frustrated and try to build a co-planar compound cycloidal reducer, get frustrated and then forget my wife’s anniversary until 4pm the day before.

Probably a bikini inspector at my favourite beach… Seriously though the Bibbulmun Track.

Technically not a sabbatical, but I saved up a bunch of money, quit my job, and have been studying abroad in Japan.

I can recommend a big stupid project where it’s not a big deal if you fail.

Until recently, for me that would’ve meant “run Windows programs on Android,” mashing together Wine and e.g. Unicorn Engine… but now there’s like six different “userland emulators” vying for preference. FEX-emu, Box86, others with even sillier names.

I did manage a bespoke 8-bit FPS. That only took about two months. And then I’ve been idly tweaking it over the last two years. Splitscreen multiplayer, as a joke, was maybe not the best idea.

What’d take both time and space is some extremely low-end VR. I am convinced that Quest-ish headsets could cost, like, fifty bucks. The big players keep iterating clever hacks from a decade ago. Solving those problem, instead of avoiding those problems. Light should be collimated by default, which means a point source, which is any single LED. Rendering has to be detached from software performance, which means projecting the nearby world to e.g. floating dots instead of directly making a flat image. Inside-out tracking is at least the right idea, but it doesn’t have to be especially good in order to ground an inertial estimate.

Buy a minivan, remove back seats. Add a bed and a battery bank, a small travel fridge and a hob for cooking then start camping at the nearest national parks. Refine my load out and start venturing farther and farther out.

I would spend my year trying to turn my side business into my actual business then I couldn’t quite my job and work for myself doing what I do now but for more money

• Run a weekly in-person D&D campaign at my house, make dinner for the players.
• Play around with Arduino and ESP32 - home automation, robots and whatever.
• Do a lot of 3d design and printing - make little toys to give away with Halloween candy.
• Build model castles.
• Listen to classic old-time radio shows.
• Help with stage productions at a local theater.
• Write some Discord bots and npm modules.
• Participate in NaNoWriMo

A full year of multi month hikes across the world. I want to see it all and meet new people.

I’d hike the Appalachian Trail.